Videos
Actually, when I was in the shower just now I composed an essay in my head regarding what Oshitari feels about Atobe in my ficverse (or what Atobe's existence in Oshitari's personal sphere - rather than vice versa! - means to him given the sort of person Oshitari is, is probably a more accurate way of putting it), but I think most of you would rather get music videos. XD;; At any rate it's 2AM in these parts.
Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing (44MB): mitethe very kindly found and uploaded this so I could get it. ^^ PSB videos come in several loose categories: the ones in which they do horrible traumatizing dances in horrible traumatizing hats/outfits [1], the ones where they stand there and sing (in Neil's case, Chris just stands) while drama is hinted at through emoting dancers and lighting effects [2], the ones that are stories about straight folks having relationship psychodrama even when the song itself is exceedingly gay, and (my favorite) the ones in which astonishingly beautiful people swan about doing whatever it is that beautiful people do and dull normals don't. "Domino Dancing" falls in the last two categories, except the song is not at all slashy [3] but the video uhh well. XD IIRC the boys swear the effect was unintentional in the PopArt DVD commentary track but then they also claim they didn't realise "So Hard" was a double entendre until after the single was released, so.
I also like the roles they give themselves in their story-oriented videos. XD While the beautiful people are having drama on the dancefloor, Chris is the little DJ in the funny hat and Neil is the guy holding up the wall and mumbling to himself.
Yaoi Theatre 3000 (23MB): got this off Tania. I imagine it's made the rounds but if you haven't seen it it's worth the download - a spoof of a spoof, sort of meta-spoof as it were. There's one line in it that made me lose it completely, see if you can guess what it is. XD What it really needs is a version 2.0 that includes clips of Prince of Tennis.
[1] That have been known to traumatize entire small Eastern European countries. In retrospect you can see how making a vaguely Russian Socialist Realism-styled video for a song called "Go West" young man, to San Francisco might have come across as a bit gratuitously threatening.
[2] Such as disco strobes refracted off David Bowie's jewelry.
[3] Unless you think it's about Kagetora.
Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing (44MB): mitethe very kindly found and uploaded this so I could get it. ^^ PSB videos come in several loose categories: the ones in which they do horrible traumatizing dances in horrible traumatizing hats/outfits [1], the ones where they stand there and sing (in Neil's case, Chris just stands) while drama is hinted at through emoting dancers and lighting effects [2], the ones that are stories about straight folks having relationship psychodrama even when the song itself is exceedingly gay, and (my favorite) the ones in which astonishingly beautiful people swan about doing whatever it is that beautiful people do and dull normals don't. "Domino Dancing" falls in the last two categories, except the song is not at all slashy [3] but the video uhh well. XD IIRC the boys swear the effect was unintentional in the PopArt DVD commentary track but then they also claim they didn't realise "So Hard" was a double entendre until after the single was released, so.
I also like the roles they give themselves in their story-oriented videos. XD While the beautiful people are having drama on the dancefloor, Chris is the little DJ in the funny hat and Neil is the guy holding up the wall and mumbling to himself.
Yaoi Theatre 3000 (23MB): got this off Tania. I imagine it's made the rounds but if you haven't seen it it's worth the download - a spoof of a spoof, sort of meta-spoof as it were. There's one line in it that made me lose it completely, see if you can guess what it is. XD What it really needs is a version 2.0 that includes clips of Prince of Tennis.
[1] That have been known to traumatize entire small Eastern European countries. In retrospect you can see how making a vaguely Russian Socialist Realism-styled video for a song called "Go West" young man, to San Francisco might have come across as a bit gratuitously threatening.
[2] Such as disco strobes refracted off David Bowie's jewelry.
[3] Unless you think it's about Kagetora.